President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) just lobbed a political grenade at the foreign-aid swamp, recommending an immediate end to nearly two dozen “war-crimes and accountability” projects that have quietly siphoned U.S. tax dollars into the pockets of activist lawyers, globalist NGOs, and ivory-tower academics from Kyiv to Yangon.
According to internal documents reviewed by Reuters, the White House directive puts roughly $70 million in State-Department grants on the chopping block—including an $18 million sweetheart deal for Georgetown University operatives embedded in Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office.
Among the loudest complainers: Global Rights Compliance and the Legal Action Network—two foreign outfits billing Washington to “document” Russian atrocities while angling for lucrative courtroom show-trials in The Hague.
The OMB memo gives Secretary of State Marco Rubio a narrow window to appeal, but insiders say Rubio is unlikely to rescue most projects.
Any bureau that wants a reprieve must prove “direct alignment” with the President’s America-First agenda—a nearly impossible hurdle for programs built to advance the Left’s “global justice” hustle.
Reuters reported:
The OMB recommendation is yet another sign that the administration is increasingly de-prioritizing advocacy for human rights and rule of law globally, an objective that previous U.S. administrations have pursued.
While U.S. foreign aid freezes had already started hampering an international effort to hold Russia responsible for alleged war crimes in Ukraine, Wednesday’s recommendations raise the risk of U.S. completely abandoning those efforts.
Among the programs that are recommended for termination is a $18 million State Department grant for Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office that is implemented by Georgetown University’s International Criminal Justice Initiative, two sources said.
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Other programs include one that does accountability work on Myanmar army’s atrocities against Rohingya minorities as well as on the persecution of Christians and other minorities by Syria’s ousted former president Bashar al-Assad, two sources said.
While the OMB recommendations could face State Department push-back, the criteria to appeal are set very strictly.
In an internal State Department email, the administration cautioned that any effort to preserve programs that were recommended to be terminated should be thoroughly argued and directly aligned with Washington’s priorities.
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